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 Guard your heart Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flows the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23. The Bible tells us to guard our hearts. Our Creator knows us and He gave us this instruction with full knowledge of the condition of human heart. This requires us to be sober because the world is full of chaos. Guarding our hearts is very important because it affects the trajectory of our lives. The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable. No one can understand how deceitful it is. Jeremiah 17:9. One wrong turn can lead to a ripple effect that can end in destruction. The enemy feeds our minds with all sorts of lies; that we have sinned too much and cannot be forgiven, that we cannot make it. His aim is to throw us into confusion and for us to start doubting the Word of God. When we listen to the voices of other people, we will realize that everybody has an opinion about every subject, and the opinions are as diverse as there are p

 Identity If we do not know our identity, then we will live our lives trying to please human beings. Knowing our identity means knowing our position in Christ. When we know who we are, we will not allow others to abuse, mistreat, or misuse us; we stop being people pleasers. Knowing who we are involves knowing our innate worth in God. Without knowing God and His love, we cannot love others. What we call loving others is validation if we do not do it out of God's love. We give to others until we become deficient, then expect others to give back in the same giving measure as we did towards them, in an effort to be validated or liked. When people do not do as we had expected, then we get frustrated. Many people are happy to receive, but giving back is hard. Therefore when we give so much expecting others to fill us in return, we run into self destruction. When we rely on people to fill voids within us, many start taking advantage, they start mistreating us and using us for their gain.

 Grief He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away. Revelation 21:4. Grief comes as a result of loss, any form of loss; death of a loved one, divorce, break up, loss of friendship, loss of business - loss of anything important to an individual. It varies in severity, and everyone is affected in a different way. When we face loss, it is okay to grieve, but we should not let it overtake us. One trap of the devil is to make us internalize the grief until it becomes a part of us, then it starts creeping through and out of our bodies as all sorts of physical and mental illnesses. It becomes poison to our bodies and souls, eats us up until we become one and part of it. The devil condemns us and tells us that we do not deserve to be happy again, he bombards us with all sorts of lies so that we remain in a pit of darkness. When we realize and identify the lies of the devil and know J

 Addictions/Idols You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make yourselves an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on earth beneath or in water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, Am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children, on the third and fourth generations for those who hate me. Exodus 20:3-5. Idols come in many forms in the present world. Any form of addiction, apart from God, is an idol. An idol is anything that takes up the place of God in our lives; whether it is work, a loved one, drugs, alcohol, another human being, ourselves, social media - anything we put first, most of the time unknowingly, above God, becomes an idol. We use such things to numb ourselves or fill a God-sized hole that can only be filled by God. We feel uneasy when we are by ourselves. We cannot face ourselves, we are afraid of quiet and stillness. We want to hear some 'noise'. The void that w

 Forgiveness Then Jesus said, Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. And they divided up His garments by casting lots. Luke 23:24. Forgiveness! Such a simple word but a difficult action to execute. Why do we find it difficult to forgive others? Because we cannot do it by our own strength, we need God. Our flesh/ carnal nature desires to hurt those who hurt us. So watch yourselves. If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times comes back to you saying 'I repent' you must forgive them. Luke 17:3-4. We are instructed to forgive just as the Lord has forgiven us. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Colossians 3:13. We have been forgiven freely and therefore we are to extend the same to those who hurt us. Forgiveness frees us and restores our

Rise Above The Storm And Find Rest For Your Soul I have told you all this so that you may have peace in Me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world. John 16:33. Jesus is the Son of God who was manifest in human flesh. He left the heavenly glory and was born man. He endured the suffering of the world until the last moment. Being God's Son, He could have easily avoided the suffering. Before the crucifixion, in great agony and sorrow, He asked His Father to take away the cup of suffering, but in the end He prayed for God's will to be done. He submitted Himself to the will of His Father, our God. The sin of Adam meant that man was separated from God and was condemned to die. However, because of how much God loves us, He sent His begotten Son to die for our sins and set us free from the law of sin and death. But God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not p